EYOE / Eat Your Own Ears

VENUE / BUSH HALL,
310 UXBRIDGE ROAD, LONDON W12 7LJ

TIME / 19.30
TUBE / SHEPHERDS BUSH
TEL / 020 8222 6955
URL / INEMUSIC..., ...

Observer ‘She's blessed with an astonishingly expressive voice, which can quickly switch from haunting whisper to harridan shriek.'... ‘Her tales of passion and revenge owe more to American artists like Regina Spektor and Cat Power.'

The Times ‘A 20 year old musical descendant of Bessie Smith.' ... ‘Blessed with a jaw-dropping blues voice that seems impossible coming from one so young and so skinny.'

Dazed & Confused ‘With a voice so hauntingly captivating you can feel it in your stomach, the skinny south Londoner and her trusted musical machine make some seriously beautiful noise.'

AnOther ‘With a voice that can alternately lull the dawn chorus or turn blue skies black, Florence Welch has been waking London's dreary scenes up to what one ambitious young woman can do.'

NME ‘There'll be nothing as exciting this summer as watching this brilliant girl and her machine'

Independent ‘a soul blues voice that can rival Sixties Motown singers, never mind her peers.'

Florence is a twenty one year-old art college drop-out from Camberwell, South London, a long pretty pale girl who makes up songs and sings them. The Machine is whoever's standing nearby playing an instrument at the time. It's a bit harder to define, the machine part. It's just not exactly a person. It's a sort of a machine. She's been singing since pretty much forever. She was in the school choir, a few dodgy bands, had vocal lessons and such. She has all the necessary paperwork if you want to see it.

If you see her sing live you'll forget paperwork and forget your name and maybe forget to breathe for a little while. Florence has a voice hewn from the rock and stamped in the gravel and shot out of a cannon into the middle of your chest. It cuts right into you and thrums. She also has almost as much stage presence as Hitler. She's like a funny sexy popstar Hitler without the despotism and with more beautiful songs and the utmost love and respect for Jews and gays and gypsies.

Plus THE BIG PINK

THE BIG PINK are Londoners Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell, two lifelong friends whose home studio experiments have bore some of the most inspiring British music of 2008. Entirely characteristic of The Big Pink’s unique furrow, the hope-filled darkness of their music points to both the digital hardcore and art-rock undergrounds, while Robbie’s trademark soaring vocal melodies and densely encompassing reverberation complete their entrancing formula. The at times stately drone and overdriven trebly crescendo nods to such sonic reference points as the shoe-gaze of my bloody valentine and brooding minimalism of Earth, but the track’s chiming chorus and tender melodic nuance allow it a fragile beauty of its very own.

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